Web Directions

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But just what the dickens is it?There's a nicely title article at Google's Enterprise blog (referencing a classic Raymond Carver short story) discussing the concept from Google's perspective, that might help bring some clarity to what is clearly a popular, if not wholly well defined concept.Hype? Reality? Important? Irrelevant? We'll soon see I guess." ["post_title"]=> string(27) "WTF is "the cloud" anyways?" 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(if you youngsters want a taste of the web in early 1994, or we old timers want to relive the glory days of animated gifs and more (sadly no evidence of the blink tag)) visit their home page today.Opera has long fought the good fight for standards, and we're very glad to see them round, and wish to see them round for many years to come." 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Congratulations Donna!

In this book, Donna describes how to plan and run a card sort, then analyse the results and apply the outcomes to your project.

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